Muse with a Scroll

c. 1938

John Matulis

Artist, American, 1910 - 2000

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, and gouache on paper

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 55.8 × 25.8 cm (21 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 49"

  • Accession

    1943.8.8029

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Wood and Wood Carving from the Index of American Design, Pensacola Museum of Art, 1995, no cat.

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 73, as Circus Wagon Figure: Muse with a Scroll.

2014

  • Folk Art and American Modernism, American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2014 - 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York: 1970, p. 602, no. 2157.

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003: no. 73.

Inscriptions

lower center in watercolor: MUSE WITH A SCROLL

Wikidata ID

Q64583784

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